breathing

breathing into

breathing,
i take in the dust of stars,
the essence of all who died.
my past, theirs and yours,
i transform into presence.

i breathe through now,
now,
three breaths,
and a breath wide from you
and a breath near to you.

breathing into
breathing into now,
this space, this silence,
into sweet solitude
where i need no voice

i give it all,
i give it all to now,
to you, to them, to me,
the dance of pollen,
of rain, of scent and salt.

i listen to
the rhythm of heart,
of blood, of breath,
of bone, of flesh, of skin
to rise, to sink

i feel into
music not made for ears,
it comes for my soul,
a song of fragrance,
of touch and of sleep

and the music is deep
where i knew it to be,
and it flies so high
as the clouds in the sky,
memory melting into now

i breathe through now,
now,
three breaths,
and a breath wide from you
and a breath near to you.